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LEPROSIES
Definition of LEPROSIES
noun
plural of leprosy
noun
An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
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Word DNA
LEPROSIES inherits its ancestry from its root, LEPROSY.
Line of descent
- Hebrew
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
17th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (559)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LEPROSY · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LEPROSIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 50 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LEPROSIES starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEILOPRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear more than once.
Words that start LEPROS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LEPROSIES?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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